black cherry

noun

a North American cherry, Prunus serotina, having drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers and bearing a black, sour, edible fruit.
the fruit itself.
the hard, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used for making furniture.

Origin of black cherry

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

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Choke-cherry ain't no good; but Black-cherry bark's awful good for lung complaint.
Two Little Savages
Ernest Thompson Seton
Utterly regardless of property rights, she showed Yan how to chip off the bark of the 77 Black-cherry.
Two Little Savages
Ernest Thompson Seton
Jimmy Phœbus shouted, with one of his Greek paroxysms of temper on, as his dark skin and black-cherry eyes flamed volcanic.
The Entailed Hat
George Alfred Townsend